So I've been playing DnD with my friends and I've noticed people tend to sorta go towards certain classes or races, something that seems to define them. So I was wondering ,what is your class and race of choice and why?


For me, I'm the kind of guy who likes to support a team, but I also like to play the face, the leader, the man with the plan, so I tend to veer towards bards, mostly the dashing the swordsman type of bard. Sure I admit I'm a pretty weak mage or swordsman but my knowledge rolls have saved us so many times, including an assassination , my knowledge of nature poisons with a critical success saved the party by allowing me to detect the subtle taste within the wine presented to us by our "friendly" lord. Needless to say it was quite the fight to get out of that castle.

I suppose also when it comes to race's for me, I like to go a bit unorthodox for Pathfinder I enjoy playing cat folk, the stats work well for a bard, and that ability to roll twice for a reflex save had saved my tail (literally at one point) many times. Once my character got fleas, got a minus 2 on all rolls (minus knowledge) thanks to that and we had to spend an entire session finding a store with a formula to douse my fur in...needless to say it was quite a laugh to strip me naked and dump me into a barrel and wash me LOL

So got any stories to tell when it comes to DnD, why you like certain classes or races

BrenTenkage : I'm not sure why, I've always picked an elf or two. Even when I was first playing D&D when I was like 7. I tend to gravitate towards classes that have a mix of magic and weaponry, a sort of jack of all trades, master of none deal. 

endings : Elven Bards, not a bad combo if I do say so. I can agree it is kinda nice to be the jack of all trades, being able to be a use in most situations. Lets face it, its akward when you run out of spells or perhaps in a location that takes away magic and all you can do is use a stick to whack people to death, and the inverse of being an average fighter who has to answer a riddle to some higher power and if you guess wrong (or try to attack it) it will zap your nuts off (and yes that has happened to me before....my DM was an jerk)

BrenTenkage : Ah man, those tough-love DMs. When I ran a game I usually leaned more towards being too soft on the players, the first time one died I tried to avoid it. lol. I got better.

endings : My take on being a DM, never try to kill the PC's unless they are taking on the big bad or its an important battle or scene. Something that will be memorable. I once had a Paladin who died because of a trap....a spike trap, fumbled the reflex roll and then last thing I see is a spike going through my eye....yeah harsh, not even impaled and the party had to work fast to fix me, nope just dead plain and simple. She was a b**** anyway glad to get away from her and her DMing style...ugh....